chess-pie

chess pie

noun Southern Cookery.
a dessert of cornmeal, sugar, butter, egg yolks, milk, and flavorings baked in a pastry shell.

Origin:
1930–35; apparently for chest pie; chest perhaps alluding to its depth

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